The Snowflake Thread: Offense

but he's at a crossroad with his OL. As a head coach you have to figure out what you can do and do it. His OL is out of control... I don't expect him to fire anyone during the season but he has to demonstrate he has the guts and desire to be a champion. Something has to change.

Can someone crunch the numbers on how many times we went play action today? That doesn't work apparently when you have -59 yards rushing in the fourth quarter.

I guess Brady Hoke nor Al Borges got that memo in high school football.

At least no pick-six today. Should've scored a touchdown on that late 4th-Qtr drive. The O-line is killing Gardner. Oh how is Gardner's injury by the way?

Just wanted to drop in super quick and say we are a fucking dumpster fire and that I've got nothing else on the matter.

He made me think Borges was an evil genius

So far I've given Borges the benefit of the doubt given that we aren't quite finished making the transition from a RR offense. Same with Funk, seeing as how young the interior O-line is. Today changed all of that. There just isn't an excuse for only scoring 6 points against MSU. The entire offensive coaching staff needs an overhaul. Once the season is over, Brandon needs to write some extremely large checks and bring in the best possible assistants.

Anyone who thinks he's not the worst OC please list why?

O line was terrible. I think the guards got overwhelmed at times. Glasgow killed a drive launching a snap over Gardner's head. Fitz was horrible picking up blitzes, but I think one of his misses may have been Taylor having a mental breakdown. Didn't block anyone on that play. In the third quarter, the receivers dropped passes and no one made a play. We had some chances to turn it around and did nothing with them. Devin got the snot beat out of him. I can't lay this one at his feet. In general, wow, bad across the board. Execution sucked. Clearly, gained no advantage from the bye week. O line needs serious repair and you wonder if the coaches can do that.

At this point I just want to fuse RR's defense with Hoke's offense because fuck me.

thing on O. He is an aggressive blocker made a play downfield. Whelp, that's about it.

will be 60/40 osu fans come gameday. book it.

It looked like Borges used the bye week to work on the three step sack. Poor Gardner, in his drops, was followed closely by D linemen. Often he was immediately sacked. Sometimes he was able to spin away so that he could lose additional yardage. I have never witnessed an offense only send 2 or 3 on pass routes allow so many defenders into the backfield. I am beyond disappoint.

Pretty sure we would have had more rush yards had we kneeled down on every play we were planning to run. That is all

Partly due to the knowledge that this team is young and our OL was criminally bare after RR. But those days are gone. Strongly disappointed in the stubborn approach to play calling this season.

Having seen him in action for a pretty reasonible time. He's just not getting it. As is many times the case, a QB with his level of athleticism and size is just broken. I've only coached kids from 3rd to 7th grade and I've seen this story repeat itself enough to draw some pretty repeatible conclusions. When coaches starting at the early ages want to win, they put the athlete at QB and let him run free. Give him one play  and his 2nd option is always the same. Himself. Great athletes like Devin & Denard along with the likes of Vince Young, Tebow, JeMarcus etc are very successfull at every level until they are forced to manage an offense where they are the last option. Devin was given a tough situation today, poor blocking, a defense with hyper aggressiveness going full tilt, bad weather and a few no calls that did make a difference. However his limitations become glaring as soon as a linebacker or anyone for that matter hints to pressure him. He immediately stops seeing what he should and I can clearly watch him shift into "me" gear. Just like Denard and so many others. Even Conner whats his ass has a far more refined sense of pocket control and mental calmness when #1 breaks down. Borges needs that more than any other skill in his QB's and he has seen very little of it since arriving at michigan. In games like this one, a tough D on the road in shit storm weather poise is the only currency trading and Devin's a great kid with a great attitude and he's tough as nails but poise and clear headed presence are not in his toolkit. He never needed those things. Tom Brady, Joe Flacco, Matt Stafford and even Connor Cook would never have gotten to even Starting FBS quarterback without them.

I am at lost for words when it comes to this offense.. My main question is, are we not evaluating this recruits hard enough or what?? We have so called talent but i am not seeing it at all..

Seeing, like, 20 sideline shots of Denard made me sad. I miss his musk...

Please explain to me why funchess was lined up tight for most of the game? Devin had no chance all night - worse blocking I gave ever seen - doesn't matter what the game plan was. The kids can't execute what these coaching are asking - so to me that is on the coaching. Not the kids.